From the Front Page - New Shows

**"I think you need to keep alive some sort of a citizen journalist concept, so that eventually, if there is some kind of a civil-society movement, there’s something to hold it together, a glue that will hold it together."**
**—David Andelman** Read More

**“Negative interest rates are purely a construct of the artificiality of the monetary system. There is going to a major bond crash - the challenge is that this could be years if not decades away, or it could be tomorrow.”**
**— Caitlin Long**
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**“I am skeptical about this concept of doing a securities issuance and then trying to escape liability by converting the token you used for that issuance into something else, this is not how liability works. If you violate the securities law you are liable no matter what you do afterwards.”**
**— Jake Chervinsky**
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**“Over the last 10 to 15 years there has been an uprising of people who value privacy, not because they are weird and want to go and hide in the woods, ordinary citizens who are not happy with how much data they are handing over.”**
**— Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni**
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Thu 13th September 2018
Company: Tari (and Monero core team member)
Role: Co-founder
David Chaum said that “Privacy is tied to human potential, an important as... Read More

**“Bitcoin is not going to zero, I don’t even think Bitcoin is going to be irrelevant, I do think in 10 years time there will be at least one asset worth materially more money than Bitcoin.”**
**— Kyle Samani**
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Wed 5th September 2018
Company: Multicoin Capital
Role: Founding Partner
Kyle first appeared on the What Bitcoin Did podcast in March, where we discussed his views on regulation in Crypto, institutional inflows and hi... Read More

**"I don’t think crypto is the end all be all, but there is no one technology that is. However, if we can provide capital to people who for generations have been unable to have access to it, that’s a major win for everybody."**
**—John Collins** Read More

**"We realized, blockchain is something different...the internet of value can be created by this new technology."**
**—Jack Lee**
Distributed Dialogues is a collaborative show between the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network and Distributed magazine. In each episode we’ll introduce you to people who are using blockchain technology to change the way we interact with the world around us. Read More

**"It was extremely difficult to create new books before the invention of the printing press. It was expensive and unsystematic. After the printing press, disseminating new books across the world became much simpler. The prices of books dropped and more people started reading. It’s the same way with the financial market today... It’s kind of like a world where there is only a couple hundred books, it’s not nearly as interesting as it could be."**
**—Joey Krug** Read More

**“I really value experimentation, we are so nascent in this industry, there are so many unknowns that I think bad experiments are valuable. So, EOS is a radical experiment in governance, if it fails due to poor engineering, we won’t learn anything but if it fails for governance reasons we’re going to learn a lot from it.”**
**— Ari Paul**
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Fri 17th August 2018
Company: BlockTower Capital
Role: CIO
Eight months into a Crypt... Read More

"Remember the story of Frankenstein. Frankenstein wasn’t the monster, Dr. Frankenstein was the young scientist who was so excited about what he could build that he didn’t foresee the possible ramifications… I hope that the new age coming to mankind remains one where the consent of the governed still matters."
-Patrick Byrne Read More

"There's a natural inclination to believe humans or structures are the problem, that if we just wrote software that made things run automatically and such malfeasance impossible, then we would end up in some gorgeous world. I think there's a lot to that concept, but you don't need to turn the keys over to the algorithms to make that happen."
—Brian Behlendorf Read More

**“Based on our understanding of monerary economics, the outcome will be such that most of the value will accrue to one coin and one coin will at the very least be the world reserve currency, and even more than that, the one global money.”**
**— Pierre Rochard**
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Sun 29th July 2018
From: Noded Bitcoin Podcast & Nakomoto Institute
In December 2016, I opened a Coinbase account to buy Bitcoin. It was a straightforward process: Google... Read More

**"Every individual person that buys into cryptocurrencies needs to do their own research. You hear this all the time, but that is the truth of the matter. If you're going to put your money in, you should really understand what you are buying. You need to understand all the ways it could go right. You need to understand all the ways it could go wrong. You need to be completely willing to go along for the ride."**
**—Laura Shin**
Distributed Dialogues is a collaborative show between the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network and Distributed magazine. Read More

**“That’s why the founders wrote the 6th ammendment, to protect the accused from judges, just on their own, deciding that something is true without the ruling of 12 jury members.”**
**— Lyn Ulbricht**
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Tue 23rd July 2018
Campaign: Free Ross
I first met Lyn Ulbricht in Austin in March earlier this year to discuss the case of her son, Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online marketplace: The Silk Road. Our interview was before the dec... Read More

**“I think the notion of a protocol which has 21 data centres to which you delegate priority to run smart contracts is a really interesting experiment, but nobody has explained to me why you need $4bn to run that experiment.”**
**— Richard Burton**
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Wed 18th July 2018
Company: Balanced Software
Role: CEO
Nothing can prepare you for running your first startup. After the excitement of raising capital, founders are thrown into a race ... Read More

**“I don’t like calling it artificial intelligence as it implies it is not real. At some point, we will create this digital intelligence, and it will think, communicate and exist. I think that is an exciting thing and can be something which transforms our lives in all sorts of positive ways.”**
**— Toby Simpson**
Interview location: Cambridge, UK
Interview date: Tue 10th Jul 2018
Company: Fetch.ai
Role: Co-founder and CTO
In 2014 Stephen Hawking told the BBC: "The developmen... Read More

**“There is no win for the UK economically, you can change the colour of your passport and you might feel good, but you are not going to have any economic benefit at all from Brexit.”**
**— Max Keiser**
Interview location: London, UK
Interview date: Thu 28th Jun 2018
In 2010, Max Keiser called JP Morgan Chase "the biggest financial terrorist on Wall Street" and started a campaign to crash the bank by encouraging people to buy Silver, leaving JP Morgan with a significant short po... Read More

October 22, 2018

Distributed Dialogues EP #7 - Cambodia and the Fall of its Free Press

September 28, 2018

What Bitcoin Did #36 An Interview with Caitlin Long & Saifedean Ammous

September 21, 2018

What Bitcoin Did #35 An Interview with Jake Chervinsky

September 14, 2018

What Bitcoin Did #34 An Interview with Riccardo “FluffyPony” Spagni from Monero & Tari